US Patent Issued to Myriad Women's Health on July 28 for "Methods and compositions for enrichment of target polynucleotides" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,539, issued on July 28, was assigned to Myriad Women's Health Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Methods and compositions for enrichment of target polynucleotides" was invented by Clement S. Chu (South San Francisco, Calif.), Noah C. Welker (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Henry H. Lai (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High-fidelity, high-throughput nucleic acid sequencing enables healthcare practitioners and patients to gain insight into genetic variants and potential health risks. However, previous methods of nucleic acid sequencing often introduce sequencing errors (for example, mutations that arise du...